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memestertrucks2025-03-08 06:26 pm
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MARCH ATP/EMP
Hello all prospective Drifters, and thank you for taking a look at Route 666! Our second TDM is going up on MARCH 15th/16th our Reserves open on MARCH 20th and Applications open on the March 25th through the 31st!
And in the meanwhile, this post is for potential players to introduce themselves and characters they’re thinking of playing! Get excited, get planning with other folks, talk about potential monsters you’re interested in, etc! We are also opening this up for current players to post ATPs to draw in some new castmates and the like!
New Players, if you would like a template, here is one:
Current players can use this template if they wish!
And thank you again for checking out the game!
And in the meanwhile, this post is for potential players to introduce themselves and characters they’re thinking of playing! Get excited, get planning with other folks, talk about potential monsters you’re interested in, etc! We are also opening this up for current players to post ATPs to draw in some new castmates and the like!
New Players, if you would like a template, here is one:
Current players can use this template if they wish!
And thank you again for checking out the game!
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INFO!
Player Name: Picaro
Contact:
Character Name: Apophis (usually goes by "Djoser" or "Pharaoh of the Magai")
Canon: IM: Great Priest Imhotep
Character Info: Once there was a good prince who couldn't be saved from a cruel fate by his best friend and came back as a terribly twisted monster that threatens the world if said best friend doesn't kill him first (again).
Apophis both is and isn't that prince. He is actually the God of Darkness, who has merged his soul with the real prince Djoser's and has been taking the helm of their shared body ever since Imhotep's botched attempt of preventing Djoser from being sacrificed alive. Because of that and other reasons(tm) he shares a lot of characteristics with Djoser including the prince's memories of being Imhotep's best friend, speaking style and human habits.
Other stuff is all his own like his severe trauma of having been repeatedly rejected and repurposed as a god (he started out as a guardian deity against stuff that made Cthulhu look like a cuddly widdle puppy but then others decided that Darkness = EViL), his dislike for lies or his bad habit of being overly casual bros with just anybody he meets. Oh, and his revenge plan that includes destroying all of Creation so that he can finally escape his fate of being an eternally abused and hated scapegoat, of course!
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Personality: once a competent guardian with big moe energy and a cynical streak, nowadays swinging wildly between being unstable & hurt, a merciless sadistic villain, and a big puppy dog & real bro who just wants to do his best for others and'll be horribly embarrassed when that inevitably fails. (Like cooking. He's a big eater, but mortals need food more, so let him try to hunt and cook for you. Wait, what do you mean that's not supposed to be on fire?)
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PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas:
Serpens! I'm not going to do the snake tail build because he likes kicking people where it hurts too much, but one of my goals is to give him both a giant monster and a tiny pocket snake form for easier handling. Having him be weak to temperature would also be fun since he's a failed sun god with fire affinity.
Vehicle Ideas:
I honestly have no idea. Maybe an Ancient Egyptian Chariot with some golem magai horses (like this) that he will have to Ikea back together each time it rains? Honestly, this guy just black hole-teleports or uses public transport when he wants to go anywhere in canon, so I doubt he even knows how to drive.
Game plans:
Desired CR: Friends, enemies, frenemies and everything in between! Apophis is actually really into making bonds with people, but he's also really scared of it because he's been hit with a mantra of "you're no part of this world! begone!" while also being actively not allowed to do that his whole life so idk if you want to touch that.
Other things I can think off: CR to get into silly shenanigans with while he's pretending to be Djoser, CR to help work through the whole turning into a monster thing with and unwantingly get attached to while dealing with his own feelings about his canon monstrous appearance, CR to push into their personalized corruption arc and have a blast while being at it, CR to be the unintentional sane man in,.... The only character types he'll antagonize by default are parental types (bc of his own 'parents'), other gods and overly lawful heroic folks.
Other:
One of his canon powers is reviving the dead by connecting their souls to clay bodies. When he recruited Cleopatra this happened.
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Apophis will probably remind him of his own sadistic chaos villain, so the negative CR will be mutual. If John recognizes the fumbling attempts to care for humans, he'll become grudgingly fond despite himself.
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(Fun fact, his own 'parents' are actually described as something akin to the Great Old Ones and just fucked off after doing him some seriously dirty and just leaving him stuck in an endless circle of being abused, murdered and forced to respawn immediately the moment he's killed, so meeting one that's actually decent? It's going to mess with his mind so hard!)
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OH AND John can sense an aura of light or darkness around people that are possessed by particularly powerful eldritch forces. Would he get a darkness vibe from Apophis? That would be a fun early clue, tho John is from too early a canonpoint to have many points of comparison, so he'll just be nebulously suspicious and wary.
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Yep, that's totally good with me! It's actually a canon plot point that Apophis is radiating dark miasma pretty badly, be it for dimension hopping from place to place, attacking, or outright forcing other living creatures to turn into horrible monsters that are at his beck and call. So he's pretty used to showing up as a pretty bad case of 'evil spirit' on most people's radars as long as they have some kind of 6th sense. If John asks him about it he'll just roll with it and blame it on Imhotep and his botched rescue attempt, since that left his and Djoser's shared existence kinda undead~♫
Can Apophis sense anything about John in return?
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Definitely! Other powerful characters can sense that John is an eldritch entity possessing a human body (but he's a podcast character, so we don't know exactly what they see). Feel free to use any of this:
John is anchored primarily in this body's eyes. He's specifically a piece of "the King in Yellow," who is twice the size of a human and cloaked in trailing, tendril-like tatters of beautiful amber light. John normally has the ability to project that form beyond this human body, though he hasn't regained that power yet in the jamjar. His only permanent, visible monster transformation in-game is a yellow radiance in his eyes when he's startled or emotional.
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And that sounds interesting! Apophis won't be able to pick up on the Eldritch thing (unless you want him to) since he'll be strongly nerfed, but he might make out that there's something dark going on and maybe that the soul doesn't match the body once he regains some of his powers. (Again only if you're cool with that, ofc.)